Has anyone had the opposite of a born again experience?

Question

I resently had a great awakening. I realized through mostly the study of science and from noticing the inconsistancies in the Bible. That their really is not a God. Definatly not the God in the Bible. The "spirtual gymnastics" performed for the Bible to fit into Christian believes is astounding. Anyway, I have to say I feel like a big weight has been lifted, and I am free to be me. I still feel I am a good person and try to do the right things. Now I do them because I want to, not because it is the "christian" thing to do. Just curious if this is unique or not.

Answer 1

Good for you! : )

Answer 2

I mean it all depends how you were raised. I was raised catholic and i never had the bible shoved down my throat at all. I was always taught to be a good person. My parents never made me go to church (well sometimes).

I'm sorry you had a bad experience. My boyfriend was raised much different than me. He was raised in a southern baptist church. He had religion shoved down his throat since the day he was born.

But at one point we both turned away from God.
He turned away because his Dad died.
I turned away because my boyfriend told me i was going to hell for being catholic and that i wasnt a real Christian. I thought to myself... if thats teh way Christians are... i do NOT want to be one.

Now here i am. I just do my thing. But I'm scared without God. I need him there with me. I pray. I'm not involved in the church so much anymore. But I'm happy to say i have a relationship with God. Besides.. if there is no God what are we here for? And is life worth living if we are all just nothing in the end?

Good lucky buddy! And because u dont believe anymore im not saying your going to hell. I think if your a good person and you have a good head on your shoulders God will take care of you in the end! Being "saved" is just a word that is over used by some churches.

Answer 3

you sound like me exactly one year ago. i got to the point where i just couldn't submit to believing anything christian. every church i drove by, i'd flip it off till i'd passed it completely. yes, like the religion topics in yahoo answers, it's the attitude that's there. i found it everywhere. i was so sick of how counterproductive to its own proclaimed cause christianity was. how they all had to be rich conservative folk, drivin' the nice new benz to CHURCH, give money to the pastor who was so well fed he didn't need a REAL JOB....and all you see when you walk in the dorrs are fake folk. fake fake *back stab!* fake!

hindsight is 20/20. i ended up in that position because i had left God one day at a time. just as i'd left God, so one day at a time, it began to dawn on me that things weren't going as well as it seemed they would at the start of my little expedition. at one point, i was reasoning about the very things i spoke of in the first paragraph and said ''i know if i really reason things out thuroughly enough, i'll eventually arrive back at the things the Bible taught me in the first place.'' that was just a physical ladder aimed at a spiritual plane. it just wouldn't get me there. i've heard it said that ''God has a heart for desperate people.'' i think God has a heart for all people, but desperate ppl especially have a heart for God. so i guess there's also a re-born...again, too.

i know a lot of this stuff probably doesn't carry much weight with you now. i know what that's like. please know that not all christians are bad folk, and that there will always be ''tares in the wheat'' in this life. you can't rightly blame God for the crazy things ppl do.

Answer 4

I had an experience when I moved to a new city and had no english-speaking church near. I was surrounded by some people who my previous church may see as undesirable.
I had a great wakeup call when I realized that we had all been hypocrits and that God loves these people just as much as the "christians". That's when I gave up the insanity of religion and learned to just try to treat everyone with respect and dignity and not cross the street just to keep from having to be near them.
I think that WAS my born-again experience.

Answer 5

Yes, I had precisely this experience at about age 12. After being brainwashed in a Christian evangelical sect that is very close in philosophy to Seventh Day Adventism, I finally had an epiphany and realized what utter nonesense it all was.

It changed my life for the better and nearly 30 years later I still look back on the day that happened as one of the happiest in my life.

I say this with complete honesty.

Answer 6

If there is one thing I learned from going to church, it's this: God doesn't live there. Most of the devout and pious Christians I know will be banned from heaven (if it actually exists).

I wonder how many Christians out there WANT to be in church two-three hours every Sunday (or twice on Sunday)? When I say want, I mean really really want - most sincerely, from the pure heart?

Answer 7

It's something that I am searching for. I still get caught up in the guilt of no longer being a Christian. I'm glad to hear that you felt a weight was lifted from you....I look forward to the day it happens to me.

Answer 8

I think you will find this a most interesting read:

http://www.jhuger.com/mat_enlight

Although most may find it hard to believe, I think you may understand where this guy is coming from. God told him personally that He does not exist. Wrap your mind around THAT one why don't you?

:)

Answer 9

That's very good of you; doing good for people for the sake of morality, and not for the sake of the religion or God. And to truly be yourself, don't ever pretend to be something you're not.

Answer 10

couldn't tell you... but spending time on the Religion / Spirituality section of Yahoo Answers is enough to make me want to give up altogether, if that counts?

Answer 11

Yea, its called growing up.